Jotwell

Jotwell is a legal blog published by Jotwell that features scholarly commentary and reviews on recent legal scholarship across diverse areas of law. It covers topics including copyright law and its application to natural objects and AI-generated works, legal issues in healthcare such as primary care access and liability, historical and contemporary family law focusing on parental rights and family regulation, the intersection of law and food policy addressing food waste and structural inequalities, and empirical studies on constitutional law matters like Fourth Amendment search and seizure practices. The blog highlights emerging legal debates and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding law's role in society.

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Heather R. Abraham, Sheltering Discrimination: Fourth Amendment Challenges to Voucher Inspections, __ U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027), available at SSRN (Feb. 06, 2026).

Professor Heather Abraham’s new Article, Sheltering Discrimination: Fourth Amendment Challenges to Voucher Inspections, embodies the…

John Morley & Yair Listokin, What Should You Owe Your Ex? A Survey of Attitudes About the Law of Married and Cohabiting Relationships (Mar. 14, 2026) (unpublished manuscript), available at SSRN.

Law has mostly dealt with unmarried couples by…

In Sustaining Stare Decisis as a Post-Merits Determination, Peter Povilonis offers an insightful and novel analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s stare decisis jurisprudence. He characterizes stare decisis as a procedural doctrine that, in its proper form, is separate from…

Earlier this year, Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate in Hong Kong and a critic of China, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of colluding with foreign forces and publishing seditious material in violation of the Beijing-originated…

It is not difficult to think of constitutional rules that are criticized, defended, or often both, on normative grounds that are more or less fact-free—not for what they actually are, but for what their critics or defenders believe they are…